Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past several days, you’re aware that Christina Aguilera completely botched her attempt at the Star-Spangled Banner at this year’s Super Bowl. She forgot the words and swapped a line with the wrong lyrics. Fail. Huge. Career. Fail. Even if she hadn’t gotten the words wrong, she over-sung much of it anyway.
The girl can sing, but she screamed much of it this time, and it was painful to experience. By the time she got to the end, it was horrendous. Look, we can’t all be Whitney, so sometimes you need to just sing the song. I mean, Whitney killed it so good they sold that thing as a cassingle! (bonus points if you owned said cassingle!)
Since Christina’s very public debacle has had the nation’s tongues wagging all week, I thought it would be fun to compile some other National Anthem failures.. a “best of the worst”, if you will. Here goes, in no specific order.
This one didn’t have any forgotten words, but man it just makes my ears cry.
This one right here… wow! He’s all over the place and sounds constipated. When he finished, I was expecting him to drop the mic and yell, “Sexual Chocolate!”.
Now this poor girl just couldn’t catch a break. If it wasn’t one thing, it was another. But it made me laugh a lot.
And this one right here… *sigh* This thing is the Patriotic equivalent of “O-Mazing Grace”! What is he even singing?!?! Mumble, mumble, mumble, as the lambs gleaming something, mumble, mumble, some bombs in the air. LOL!!
Good times, good times.
Have you ever made a really big, really public mistake?
I saw this for the first time when Randy Elrodtweeted about it this morning, and it had me cracking up!
Julian Smith is hilarious! And for those who can’t find the humor here, Julian takes a knee to quell any concern or dissent over his motives. Actually, I just wanted to use the words “quell” and “dissent”. I win! At any rate, lighten up, relax and laugh. After all, it done been blessed!